lost lamb
Example Sentences
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Kate Riley follows Ruth from childhood to middle age, writing with kindness, hilarity and aphoristic brilliance about this eccentric woman, a lost lamb who never actually leaves the safety of the flock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Mrs. Underdown called me a poor lost lamb.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
A favorite child was lost from a goodly family, and ill feelings were agitated, and all hearts ran after him through thicket and field, over hill and valley, like shepherds after a lost lamb.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
But I had to do it to save my poor lost lamb, and if I didn't I should go mad myself—Thou knows I should.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
He speaks—the mountains kneel, the valleys rise; Rolls to the north the land-dividing wave; Equality—nay, justice, holds the helm, Each hath his own, the lost lamb finds the fold.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney
